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Communities and employers show a high level of preparedness in supporting working mothers to combine breastfeeding with work in rural Kenya
Originally published 2021-04-15 · Maternal & Child Nutrition
Wiley · DOI 10.1111/mcn.13180 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Assesses readiness to support breastfeeding across employers and community actors, distinguishing enthusiasm from resources and knowledge to act.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Are we ready to support a parent in practice, or only in principle?
Assesses readiness to support breastfeeding across employers and community actors, distinguishing enthusiasm from resources and knowledge to act.
Study context
17 purposively selected parents, community representatives, health professionals and tea-plantation managers in Kericho County, Kenya.
Age / stage: Working mothers and infants; adult community stakeholders.
Read with three questions
- Which readiness dimensions scored highest and lowest?
- How did leadership compare with resource availability and knowledge of efforts?
- What would need evaluation beyond a readiness score before claiming improved family outcomes?
Keep the limits in view
A small purposive stakeholder sample at one tea estate cannot represent Kenya or prove intervention effectiveness; readiness ratings are not breastfeeding or employment outcomes.
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Taddese Alemu Zerfu; Paula Griffiths; Teresia Macharia; Eva W Kamande; Esther Anono; Laura Kiige; Peter Muriuki Gatheru; Susan Jobando; Grainne Moloney; Elizabeth Wambui Kimani‐Murage (2021). Communities and employers show a high level of preparedness in supporting working mothers to combine breastfeeding with work in rural Kenya Maternal & Child Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13180
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